Ep. 184 The Desire Advocate Is In with Nichole Perkins

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We're joined today by cultural critic, poet, podcaster, and author Nichole Perkins. Her new book, Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be is a memoir in essays that covers the intimate details of Perkins' life. We talk on this episode about sex writing, setting boundaries, and intended versus actual audience.

You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/10/06/ep-184-nichole-perkins

The Stacks Book Club selection for October is Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan, we will discuss the book with October 27th on Nichole Perkins.

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0:00.0	All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left
0:08.5	Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show
0:16.2	We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsay
0:18.4	Yes, that Rachel Lindsay the first black bachelorette
0:21.8	Also, she is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being
0:26.4	We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and
0:33.7	The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer comedian director and of course the host of
0:42.6	Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast
0:46.6	We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club
0:52.6	One of my favorite bookstores here in L.A. is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams
0:57.8	It's not too late to get your tickets head to the stacks podcast dot com slash tour before they sell out
1:14.6	Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them
1:17.8	I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today we are joined by cultural critic poet and author of sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
1:25.1	Nicole Perkins her book is a collection of essays about sex, race, gender and pop culture that came out in August
1:32.4	Nicole is also the host of this is good for you a podcast about finding pleasure in life
1:37.2	And we talk today about writing about sex boundaries and romance novels
1:44.0	The sacks book club pick for October is waiting to exhale by Terry McMillan
1:48.0	We will be discussing the book on Wednesday October 27th with Nicole Perkins
1:52.5	If you love the show and want more of it like bonus episodes a community of book nerds to share thoughts with and our monthly virtual book club
1:59.0	You must join the stacks pack. That's a community for all things stacks on patreon if this sounds like a community
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2:09.1	I want to give a quick shout out to some of our newest members of the stacks pack
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